From 981a4646a99740a3e02564845b3164a30c2554a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Aehlig Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 11:05:50 +0200 Subject: Update man page and CHANGELOG to reflect blob splitting --- share/man/just.1.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'share') diff --git a/share/man/just.1.md b/share/man/just.1.md index f4d613bf..ccd1964e 100644 --- a/share/man/just.1.md +++ b/share/man/just.1.md @@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ to the youngest generation; therefore, upon a call to **`gc`** everything not referenced since the last call to **`gc`** is purged and the corresponding disk space reclaimed. +Additionally, and before doing generation rotation, + - left-over temporary directories (e.g., from interrupted `just` + invocations) are removed, and + - large files are split and only the chunks and the information + how to assemble the file from the chunks are kept; in this way + disk space is saved without losing information. + +As the non-rotating tasks can be useful in their own right, the +`--no-rotate` option can be used to request only the clean-up tasks +that do not lose information. + **`execute`** ------------- -- cgit v1.2.3